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He said: “It will be more akin to a league game in terms of its intensity, although it won’t be 100 per cent intensity because we’re not quite there yet, but it will be more closely related in terms of a league match.

“The positive after Saturday is we feel we’re going in better physical shape and tactical shape, but we also have players that are going to be available for training today.

“We go to Ebbsfleet now with even better squad selection issues.

“You can go out in games in pre-season and wins sixes and sevens and everything’s great and everyone gets lulled into a false sense of security and we haven’t had that even against the teams we’ve played in the first three games.”